February

News Posts in February, 2011

On Feb. 16, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery for patients who are significantly less obese than those who were previously eligible. The FDA approval now makes eligible patients with a body ...

Allegations have been proven false that Prime Healthcare patients were acquiring serious blood infections, such as septicemia, and/or that its hospitals were "upcoding” by improperly assigning a diagnosis of septicemia. In late November ...